Hypersensitivity Type III- Hunter Flashcards
What is type III hypersensitivity driven by?
IgG, immune complexes, complements and phagocytes
What is an example of a type III hypersensitivity response?
serum sickness, systemic lupus erythematosus
What can cause immune complex diseases?
microbial antigens
drugs and biologics
molds, spores, chemicals
self antigens
What determines the pathology of a type III hypersensitivity reaction?
dose and route
What will a high dose intravenously of an antigen cause?
vasculitis
nephritis
arthritis
What will a subcutaneous dose of an antigen cause?
arthus reaction
What will an inhaled dose of an antigen cause?
farmer’s lung
What is an arthrus reaction?
a local type III hypersensitivity reaction
What kind of immune complex problem is this:
with microbial antigens such as streptococcal infections, malaria, and viral hepatitis can overwhelm the system that rids the body of immune complexes leading to deposition of excess immune complexes into blood vessels and tissues.
persistent infection
What kind of immune complex problem is this:
drugs and biologics form acute immune complex disease which can lead to the arthus reaction and serum sickness
injected antigen
What kind of immune complex problem is:
molds, spores and chemical and lead to immune complexes and hypersensitivity pneumonitis (extrinsic allergic alveolitis) this:
inhaled antigen
What kind of immune complex problem is this:
self-antigens are bound by antibodies forming complexes and lead to chronic disease like that seen in systemic lupus erythematosis, and rheumatoid arthritis
autoimmunity
How do you clear an immune complex?
The C3b/C4b found on immune complexes will bind CR1 on RBCs and be taken to the liver or spleen to be cleared.
What does the C3b/C4b on immune complexes bind to on the RBC?
CR1
What destroys immune complexes in the spleen?
splenic macrophages
What destroys immune complexes in the liver?
kupffer cells
What do kupffer cells and splenic macrophages have on them to allow them to bind and destroy immune complexes?
FC receptors
Do the RBCs attached to the immune complexes get destroyed as well?
no they are safe and return to the circulation.
(blank) factors influence immune complex deposition.
hemodynamic
Deposition of immune complexes in blood vessel walls leads to (blank)
immunopathology
Where do immune complexes deposit in the vasculature?
in between endothelial cells
When immune complexes deposit in the vasculature, what is activated?
complement releasing anaphylatoxins (C5a and C3a)
So once a immune complex deposits in between endothelial cells and anaphylatoxin (C5a and C3a) are activatd what happens next?
neutrophils are recruited to the site and bind immune complexes by their Fc receptors and become activated. The neutrophils attempt to phagocytize the complex but cant so they release a bunch of granules, inflammatory mediators, and enzymes to cause tissue destruction.
What is the most common post-infectious actue proliferative nephritis?
post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis